gentlemen, let's go live now to vice president joe biden delivering his remarks at the salute to heroes inaugural ball. here is the vice president. ♪ >> how you doing? well, good evening. [ cheering ] i am -- i am jill biden's husband, and i came along with my whole family, which is standing over there in the wings. major beau biden spent a year in iraq, and his wife halle. we have a lot of -- please be seated, please be seated. we have a lot of bad judgment in my family. my son, who is over 40, just joined the united states navy, is about to be sworn in as an officer, hunter biden. and kathleen, the love of my life and the life of my love and her husband howard. and bernie, it's good to be with you, senator, and congressman jeff miller and commander and our national commander and all the dignitaries that are here. folks, i want to thank you all. it's truly, truly a great privilege to be here tonight with so many. and i don't use this phrase lightly, brave women and men who have served our country with such extraordinary, extraordinary valor and distinction. the greek historian, yeah,